#hunter gatherers

[ancientorigins]

According to consensus, prehistoric men hunted and women gathered. But evidence reveals that gendered labor roles did not exist in the Paleolithic era.

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

A feature of many groups like the San that include shamans is the wearing of the heads and skins of animals with which these people have a ritual relationship  and on whose powers they draw. Animal or bird caps and/or masks and/or costumes are, or were, worn in a range of societies by ritual functionaries whose role is, or was, to mediate between the living and the spirit world, including the realm of the dead. Animal masks and costumes covering the head and/or body of the wearer include masks made from the entire heads of donkeys (Fig. 7). Other costumes were made from the skin and head of a jaguar, with gloves made from their paws, so that the costumed person assumes the form of the animal (Saunders 1989) (Fig. 8). The ritual dress of Siberian shamans included masks with horns (Hoppall 1992), masks made of bears' heads with skin attached (Eliade 1964), wings hung from the shaman's shoulders (Eliade 1964; Waite 1966; Hoppall 1992), and a bird, such as a raven or eagle, on the head (Waite 1966; Hoppal 1992).

Bogoras (1909) relates a Koryak myth in which a woman transforms herself into a bear by putting on a bear-skin and describes the metamorphosis of trancing Chukchee shamans into animals, aided, in some cases, by their wearing the skin (including head and claws) of the animal concerned. The wild and uncontrolled behaviour of the shamans described by Bogoras (1909) is similar in many respects to that exhibited by San trancers, which suggests that the Chukchee described here went into trance with the aid of animal masks and dress:

“The shamans also imitate the voices of animals and birds, stamp ground with their feet, and jump about violently, foaming at the mouth, and even breaking such things as may come within reach of their hands. A shaman whose body is entered by a (spirit) loses the faculty of human speech, and may express his wishes either by gestures or by gibbering, unintelligible noises. He crawls on all fours, grunting and gnashing his teeth. I was told several times that some of the shamans even put on a bear or a wolf skin, taken off with the claws and the skull.” (Bogoras1909:442)

Therianthropes in San Rock Art by Pieter Jolly

[schifty-al]

Hunter should've kept the tits at least

[historyfiles]

Kemmelberg - Earliest Humans (Part 4): the hunter-gatherer age gradually came to an end as the Neolithic farming revolution swept across Europe.

[ayahuascadiaries]

The average [hunter-gatherer] . . . had a diet and a work life, much more varied than the typical English worker of 1800 . . . [H]unter-gatherer societies are egalitarian . . . [and] [m]aterial consumption varies little across [their] members. In contrast, inequality was pervasive in the agrarian economies that dominated the world in 1800

From the book The new human rights movement of peter Joseph

[deadstonemasonssociety]

A study conducted by TraceoLab at the University of Liège reveals the existence of long-distance weaponry 10,000 years earlier than previously estimated.

The hunter-gatherers who settled on the banks of the Haine, a river in southern Belgium, 31,000 years ago were already using spearthrowers to hunt their game.

The spearthrower is a weapon designed for throwing darts, which are large projectiles resembling arrows that generally measure over two metres long.

Spearthrowers can propel darts over a distance of up to eighty metres. The invention of long-range hunting weapons has had significant consequences for human evolution, as it changed hunting practices and the dynamics between humans and their prey, as well as the diet and social organisation of prehistoric hunter-gatherer groups.

The date of invention and spread of these weapons has therefore long been the subject of lively debate within the scientific community

[machineofreality]

Is civilisation inevitable

230702 I’m in a talk right now about anthropology and particularly the transition to agriculture and patriarchy. It’s got me thinking about the brain traps that I’ve gotten stuck in. There’s some obvious ones that I hope doesn’t apply to me that amount to biological determinism. I might come back to that. The main one that I’m thinking about is the idea that agriculture and settlement are…

[marionette-j2x]

The Perfect Shade... ☀️

'cause you know he's a tree and- //gets slapped-

[ehj3]

PARABLE OF A CAVE

PARABLE OF A CAVE

“He will require to grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world… first, he will see the shadows best” —Socrates via Plato The image shows a dark cave. Outside the cave, it is twilight. Inside it, on a wall half-lit by a small oil lamp (or a hanging incandescent bulb, or some light source cropped out) we see drawing of bulls a la Picasso (or Trois Freres cave’s therianthropic (half…

[katchcern]

We could have had it all Image description in alt text.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 268

Fright Knight sighs, running a clawed hand through his hair in an attempt to stop the flames from flickering into being. It had been far too long since he had taken a human-ish form. His human-ish form. Ugh. He didn’t exactly care for his human form after so long as a ghost, but needs must he supposed. 

Especially with the whole, we’re going to punch a backdoor into the literal daycare part of the Infinite Realms and be surprised when literal toddlers go exploring. 

Well, at least it got him off of guard duty for a bit, which was relieving. Not that he didn’t love the darkness, but it got boring in the shadow of his sword for literal centuries with nothing else happening. He was a warrior for Realm’s sake! Borderline an Ancient in both power and age! He wasn’t meant to stay so still for so long. 

So while ghostling wrangling wasn’t exactly in his area of expertise, he could definitely gather them back up to the Realms. And deal with the curs who had decided to attack literal babies. 

The Daycare area was already understaffed due to just how large it was, and the one in charge of this section had practically sobbed to the Council (In another world they would have been put on hold for a century in line for their concerns, and then more once a Sarcophagus was opened, but they had told the other ghosts in distress, causing others to let them go up in said line) how they were almost certain they had felt at least one core form Outside the realms thanks to the breach. 

Which had understandably put everyone at an uproar. 

So here he was slipping between shadows to do reconnaissance and take stock of if any Ghostlings had left the city. And gently scruffing those he comes across in exasperation because what are you doing, ghostling? Look at the mess, what would your caretaker say? 

[historyfiles]

WHGs: from the early Holocene onwards (starting around 9700 BC), western and Central Europe was inhabited by a genetically-distinct group of hunter-gatherers - WHGs.

[thesilicontribesman]

Mesolithic Harpoon Head, 4500 BCE, Stewartry Museum, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

This is a 6500 year old harpoon made from a Red Deer antler and found in the River Dee. It is of a similar type of harpoon to those found in Mesolithic caves or rock shelters near Oban. This piece has been carbon dated to around 4500 BCE.

[ayahuascadiaries]

since mobility was essential, hoarding property or basing identity on material possessions would have been impractical. The very idea of “property rights,” which underscores modern economics and in many ways our society itself, really didn’t exist in hunter-gatherer culture.57If we were to put these concepts in modern terms, hunter-gatherers had a gift economy in their communities, where they shared with no expectation of reciprocation. In fact, there are stories of outsiders being given handcrafts from existing tribes, only to feel the need to give something in return, as many in modern culture do. This reciprocal behavior was considered offensive by the tribe, as they felt the “exchange” was a refusal of friendship

From The book: the new human rights movement of peter Joseph